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“Decision making is not easy”. I can remember very well the scene when this statement has once first knocked in my ears. She was a young lady anesthesiologist wearing the surgical theatre suit. In that time, I was just a freshly graduated medical doctor who dared to enter the most horrible medical situations, namely the cardiothoracic surgical room, seeking for nobility, self and glory. Once the soft and serious voice touched my ears and my whole being, I felt again the difficulty of the duty that hangs on a word and a meaning I am apparently deficient in, decision. I was not really raised up to know what a decision could be. And now it might be the time to have it, inevitably, face to face. Was it really the time? – Maybe.

As a physician one has to train on decision making as precise and as time-fitting as possible. One time you decide to start a medical treatment, another time if to discharge a recovering patient, again whether to refer the case to another colleague, and so on. Simply, I would ask myself very curiously how many decisions I had to make this finished work day and how my score in terms of right and false ones was. Do medical decision making differ from that in the general life themes?

The process of decision making comprises 4 elements: 1) ‘resolved’ person, 2) ‘adequate and reliable’ information, 3) ‘proper’ scaling and interpretation and 4) ‘titratable’ stepping. An appreciable cost of time is needed for each of these elements. There could be an order for the functionality of decision making which includes: instinct → cognition → insight → intuition → inspiration → revelation → destiny and divine providence. The person is, thus, quite obviously the most important player in the right decision making. To be a ‘resolved one’ I would need to have: 1- things in a reasonable order and to 2- critically and objectively assess my own self-perception. A systematic way in decision making would help the person to sustain an ambitious and promising performance and to cope with the thus restrained and unlikely embarrassing incidents.

Inclination, decision and obligation are three words that would contrast the meaning of one another. Inclination might be a kind of default that could be good or bad. Obligation is a kind of constraint that would bear benefit as it is the case with medical recommendations. These two seem like simplest form of behavior. Decision, on the other hand, would imply a much longer and elaborate problem solving starting from ‘order’ passing through ‘information’ and ‘interpretation’ and effected in incremental or ‘titratable steps’.

Being person-dependent, decision making may vary considerably in form and utter. However, a preservation of consensus of ethics would greatly neaten such personal variations.

A religion is sometimes thought of as a sum of rituals and believes with varying impact on the running of daily life. According to religious provisions one may select from a wide panel of life trends including marriage, outlook, interests, values and food. The presetting of a magnificent Creator and supra-human will is also sometimes a great concern of religious belief. As a mere kind of inspiration, religion may not surpass being an idea that long tackled the human intellect and spirit.
Being “religious” on such definition may denote a sort of discipline and order. It may entail also a given appreciable standard of good values, morals, passion and reasoning. A religion could be an adoption of respect and creative attitude to restrain a natural tendency to shallowness and recession. Remedies, free time, jobbing, social life, beautiful surrounding and healthy food are basic life-issues that may be influenced by religious believes.
In this vision, religion is not a mere set of obligations and restrictions but more a system that cares about and ensures an effective and harmonized performance and proper out-shaping of human needs and capabilities. Indeed, religion is concerned with perception, science and justice. Science can be an approach to justify a given religious belief that in turn encourages scientfic perception of life in the best proved human experience. Justice, on the other hand, is the almost indispensible common factor in a religion that praises peace, forgiveness and perfection.

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Mustafa was raised in a middle class family as 7th kid among a total of 8 kids. He enjoyed much love and joy in his family yet with often happening embarrassments. His intelligence was quite apparent for everybody and he adopted a straight and honest conduct while still a child of a few years of age. School achievements and academic brilliance were obvious in the middle school years where he used to be ranked first without appreciable concurrence. The young man could be described as a potential polymath as he showed interests in many scientific and literary subjects. Mustafa’s lingual competence may be appreciated in language performances, both spoken and written. The author won a few scholarship opportunities that remarkably refined his scientific and humanistic perceptions.